Essen

Quality:

Essen - city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. This city is the 372^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of cities and the 768^th most popular city in English Wikipedia. Article “Essen” in English Wikipedia has 75.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 62 references and 48 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

The 768^th most popular in cities in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6318^th most popular in AI.

The 372^nd most popular in cities.

In June 2026 the article “Essen” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Essen”, its content was written by 438 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3221 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6318^th place).

Essen is on the 768^th place in local ranking of cities in English Wikipedia and on the 372^nd place in global ranking of cities in all the time.

The article is cited 3588 times in English Wikipedia (8193^rd place) and cited 36403 times in all languages (4651^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3753 in May 2004
• Global: #561 in June 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #35837 in July 2010
• Global: #7152 in January 2026

There are 52 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Essen		93.8428
2	English (en) Essen		75.1226
3	Ukrainian (uk) Ессен		61.3213
4	Esperanto (eo) Essen		59.8511
5	Polish (pl) Essen		58.4245
6	Czech (cs) Essen		58.3478
7	Hebrew (he) אסן		51.8126
8	Swedish (sv) Essen		49.3619
9	Russian (ru) Эссен		49.2366
10	Hungarian (hu) Essen (Észak-Rajna-Vesztfália)		49.1779

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Essen		7 726 070
2	English (en) Essen		4 217 740
3	Russian (ru) Эссен		810 278
4	Polish (pl) Essen		713 214
5	French (fr) Essen		653 003
6	Spanish (es) Essen		540 824
7	Italian (it) Essen		501 446
8	Dutch (nl) Essen (Noordrijn-Westfalen)		458 854
9	Japanese (ja) エッセン		265 604
10	Turkish (tr) Essen		214 071

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Essen		19 657
2	English (en) Essen		15 462
3	Russian (ru) Эссен		2 723
4	Polish (pl) Essen		2 145
5	Spanish (es) Essen		2 059
6	French (fr) Essen		1 907
7	Italian (it) Essen		1 829
8	Dutch (nl) Essen (Noordrijn-Westfalen)		1 448
9	Turkish (tr) Essen		950
10	Japanese (ja) エッセン		774

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Essen		1 060
2	English (en) Essen		438
3	French (fr) Essen		164
4	Dutch (nl) Essen (Noordrijn-Westfalen)		151
5	Italian (it) Essen		135
6	Russian (ru) Эссен		99
7	Spanish (es) Essen		74
8	Hebrew (he) אסן		68
9	Hungarian (hu) Essen (Észak-Rajna-Vesztfália)		59
10	Esperanto (eo) Essen		57

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Essen		9
2	English (en) Essen		3
3	Hungarian (hu) Essen (Észak-Rajna-Vesztfália)		2
4	Basque (eu) Essen		1
5	French (fr) Essen		1
6	Hebrew (he) אסן		1
7	Dutch (nl) Essen (Noordrijn-Westfalen)		1
8	Turkish (tr) Essen		1
9	Arabic (ar) إسن (ألمانيا)		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Essen		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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